Name: ___________________________ Preposition Worksheet 2 Directions: Locate the prepositions in the sentence and circle or underline them. Each sentence contains at least two prepositions.

Some Common Prepositions: about, above, across, against, along, among, around, as, at, behind, below, beneath, beside, between, beyond, by, down, during, for, from, in, inside, into, near, of, off, on, onto, outside, over, past, since, than, through, to, toward, under, until, up, upon, with, within, and without.

1. We cut through the fence and snuck into the secret government base. 2. We were looking for the documents that were hidden in a safe. 3. There was a guard with a dart gun hiding behind a door. 4. We tried sneaking by him, but I tripped over a mop. 5. The guard grabbed my friend by the neck, but I snuck around him and karate chopped him. 6. He fell on the ground and we crept into the elevator. 7. The red lights above us were flashing and we could hear footsteps coming toward us. 8. We were near the safe when a bunch of guards ran from the break room. 9. We hid under a cardboard box and they ran by us. 10. We crept along the wall, snuck inside the room, and broke into the safe. 11. I took the secret documents from the safe that was hidden under a desk. 12. I put the documents in my bag without looking at them. 13. She snuck under the gate, and I removed the alarm from the wall. 14. We crawled onto the elevator and climbed up the elevator shaft. 15. We were near the exit when the elevator started moving toward us. 16. The elevator inched toward us, but we jumped through a ventilation shaft. 17. We crawled along the ventilation shaft and we were near the exhaust vent. 18. I kicked out the vent and we jumped from the shaft into a dumpster filled with cardboard boxes. 19. We crawled through the yard and hopped into our escape car. 20. We escaped from the base and we looked at the documents, which were ungraded school papers.